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Crippled Immortals (Paperback)
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Crippled Immortals (Paperback)
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Loot Price R459
Discovery Miles 4 590
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A martial-arts master escapes from a prison camp in wartime China
and flees to Malaya. His hopes for a quiet life are dashed when he
saves a bus driver from a lynch mob. The master agrees to impart
his secrets to five disciples. Although the organisation they found
becomes internationally renowned, the arts are almost entirely lost
as the initiates succumb to internal squabbling and greed. New in
Singapore, Chris Murray tracks down Chan See-meng, favourite
disciple of the great Chee Kim Thong. Through dusty Malaysian
villages and Shaolin Temple in China, the adventure that begins
with gruelling practice on Chan's rooftop leads Chris in the
footsteps of the masters. As he becomes absorbed in the esoteric
depths of Five Ancestors Fist, he investigates the journey of Zen
martial-arts from ancient temples to modern gymnasia. Can these
traditions survive in modernity? An intimate memoir with historical
scope, Crippled Immortals unites a cast of legendary heroes and
slack-jawed monks, Indian yogi and Tibetan lamas, bluffers,
gangsters, and champions who have been touched by Old Man Chee's
arts. The practitioner's path to enlightenment is always arduous,
often hilarious, and sometimes heart-breaking. True adepts talk
with their fists, but the strength that endures lies in the bond
between master and disciple.
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